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OS 1810s
Old Series
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FA2003.1.9:- 
Map, uncoloured engraving, One inch map Old Series, sheet 9, Brighton, including parts of Hampshire, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, published under the direction of LtCol Mudge, Ordnance Survey, Tower of London, London, 1813.
The map includes Midhurst, Chichester, etc, West Sussex; plus parts of east Hampshire with the detached part of Hampshire in Sussex. The map is about 'state 5' with the River Adur labelled south of Bramber.
The map has red diamond labels on the end sections to show correct folding, the front label marked with the sheet number '9.'; there is a location map on the front section, cut fron an index sheet for the series; the edges are bound with blue ribbon.
map feature:-  not coloured & sectioned for folding & mounted & folded (4x2 pieces) & scale line & piano key border & coast form lines & coast appearance & rivers & woods & forests & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & settlements & roads & railways & canals
inscription:-  printed -on- top left Published 1st. Feby. 1813, by Lt. Coll. Mudge, Tower.
inscription:-  printed -on- top right, outside border No.IX / 9
inscription:-  printed -on- top right Engraved at the Drawing Room in the Tower by Benjn. Baker & Assistants - The Writing by Ebenr. Bourne.
inscription:-  printed -on- right border Parallel to the Meridian of Greenwich
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom centre Price Seven Shillings
inscription:-  printed -on- across map S U S
inscription:-  printed -on- in borders, top, right, bottom, left 8 / 5 / / 11 -- next sheet numbers
inscription:-  ms -on- upper right [L.] Thwaites
scale line:-  5+1 miles = 149.1 mm
dimension:-  wxh, folded = 24x32cm
wxh, sheet = 96x64cm (plus fold out piece for Selsey Bill)
wxh, map (borders; includes gaps) = 91.5x62cm
scale = 1 to 63360 (nominal)
wxh, location map = 87x76mm

reference:-  Harley, J B (intro) & O'Donoghue, Yolande (intro): 1981: Old Series Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales & South-central England: Margary, Harry (Lympne Castle, Kent): vol.3: ISBN 0 903541 03 3
  Map Group -- OS 1810s Old Series -- with Research Notes


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MN: 30.1.2004